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“God's method of revelation includes the very shaping and chiselling of individualities for His own objective ends.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Idea of Biblical Theology

“Nothing of what He was or did, He was or did for Himself.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“Precisely because it is to a large degree incipient realization, it bears the signature of eschatology written clear on its face.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology

“Spiritual religion must magnify the Word, the Word of God and the word of the man who truly preaches the Word of God.” — Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments

“The sin against the gospel is the sin, the greatest sin.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“Undoubtedly the kingship of God, as his recognized and applied supremacy, is intended to pervade and control the whole of human life in all its forms of existence.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church

“God claims him entirely, and if he gives himself entirely to God, then the measure of his own righteousness is only just full and so never overflows it.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“Christ is the ἀπαρχή and ἀπαρχή stands connected with ἔπειτα.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology

“The soul extends itself toward this, moves itself in this direction, so that the whole life is drawn thither.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“If there be any reward at all, then the great epoch of summing up and allotting destinies must be pregnant with it.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology

“Where there is no sacrifice for sin, there is a fearful expectation of judgment and fury of fire.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“In it something occurs that, at a great distance, resembles the divine repugnance that is awakened by all uncleanness.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“The spirit's proper sphere is the future aeon; from thence He projects Himself into the present, and becomes a prophecy of Himself in his eschatological operations.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology

“The pure in heart shall see God, those that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be completely satisfied with the same, the peacemakers shall be called sons of God.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church

“We acknowledge that in the Lord’s Supper there is for the believing participant a true fellowship through the Holy Spirit with the Mediator become flesh and now existing in flesh.” — Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

“The reality of revelation should be the supreme factor by which the historic factor is kept under control.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Idea of Biblical Theology

“The Messiah was a national patriotic figure; to sever Him from Israel deprives Him of all significance.” — Geerhardus Vos, The Self-Disclosure of Jesus